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Recently I changed roles at my office, from middleware support to RHEL administration. We use VMware to create and manage virtual servers and Windows Server for domain control, so experience with these tools is also of great benefit.
Over the weekend I built a home lab and installed VMware ESXi onto it. This week I'm collaborating with the other Linux admin from work to help perform initial setup and training with Windows Server, a platform I've never used before.
It's quite an exciting project. I've always wanted to delve deeper into systems administration, from internal domains to user management to backups to automation. The majority of my experience with Linux thus far has been from the personal side: configuring web browsers, resolving dependencies for media playback, writing small scripts to handle basic user tasks, and of course building and serving a gopherhole.
I feel I need a lot more training and expertise before anything on the home lab could be considered produciton-ready. But even when I reach that point, I might decide not to move this site to a virtual infrastructure. As enthralling as a home lab is, I enjoy the idea of serving a simple, low-resource gopherhole from simple, low-resource hardware like a Raspberry Pi. I like new technology, but I also like simplicity, and VMware is certainly not simple.
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I am now version-controlling Rob's Gopherhole using git. This should give me a much greater degree of flexibility and robustness. I can manage content using a local repo on another machine and push back to the server. I can recover deleted files simply by rolling back a commit. And I can now automatically implement a changelog--there is now a live log on the home map.
I hope this will make adding content to the gopherhole much easier for me, and therefore I will be more inclined to do it. More features to come!
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[Last updated: 2021-10-28]